Demolition crews will begin letting air out of the RCA Dome as early as next spring. Deflating and removing the Dome's fabric roof is the first step of a five-month demolition process, which officials explained today at a meeting of the Indiana Stadium and Convention Building Authority. Crews will use traditional demolition methods, such as wrecking balls and bulldozers, to slowly raze the structure starting at the north end. Before demolition ends, other crews will begin work on a $275-million expansion of the Indiana Convention Center. The project requires the removal of about 250,000 tons of debris. The convention center expansion should open by Fall 2010.

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Schouten is an Indianapolis native and Indiana University graduate who joined IBJ in 2006 after stints at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and the Arizona Republic. He covered the real estate beat for most of those years, and launched the Property Lines blog, before taking over as managing editor in March 2013.

Schouten has been honored for investigative and enterprise reporting by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the Alliance of Area Business Publications and the Society of Professional Journalists in Indianapolis. During his tenure as moderator of Property Lines, the blog was recognized twice as the best among business journals by the AAPB.

Schouten serves as secretary of the board of governors of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and is set to serve as the organization's president in 2016. He is treasurer of the Indianapolis Press Club Foundation, and a board member of the Indianapolis Public Schools Education Foundation.

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